The syntactic behaviour of possessives in the Romance languages

  • Xavier Frías Conde Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFRM.2012.v29.n1.38947
Keywords: possessives, possessive phrase, demonstratives, determiners.

Abstract

Possessives in the Romance languages show a rather complex behaviour, turning out quite different when comparing the different languages. Our goal is to follow a generative approach of the Possessive Phrase (POSSP) and its possible combinations with other functional projections of the Noun Cluster (namely demonstratives and articles), where the different positions of possessives, i.e. prenominal and postnominal positions are interpreted as cases of rising or lack of movement respectively. Therefore a certain typology of possessives is required.

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Published
2012-05-30
How to Cite
Frías Conde X. (2012). The syntactic behaviour of possessives in the Romance languages. Revista de Filología Románica, 29(1), 59-74. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFRM.2012.v29.n1.38947
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Vol. 29 No. 1 (2012)
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